• LJMU Digital Accessibility: Staff and Student Guide
• Learning Technology Tools - Accessibility Statement
• Learning Technologies Mobile Accessibility Statement
• Canvas Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT)
• Canvas Student App and Canvas Teacher App Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT)
• Panopto Accessibility Conformance Report
• Vevox Accessibility Statement

• Course Accessibility Auditing project
• The A11y project
• AiDED project
  

• Canvas Immersive Reader
• Facilities, Software and support Available for Disabled Users
• What are the Canvas accessibility standards?

• Web Content Team - Making your content accessible guide

• Making accessibility simpler in Higher Education and beyond!
• Good Practice Series: Active Learning, Inclusive Learning Cultures and ‘in-class’ learning technologies (Staff)
• Generative AI and accessibility in education

The Teaching and Learning Academy has developed a series of practical guides tackling the most pressing accessibility challenges our students face. Digital accessibility is a vast topic, and mastering it takes time—but small, focused steps can make a big difference. With the 'Just Do One Thing' approach, you can zero in on a specific issue, learn about it, and apply meaningful changes to your course. Once you’ve mastered one, you're ready to take on the next, steadily building a more inclusive learning experience.

• Alt Text
• Using Headings
• Audio and Video
• Using Colour
• Accessibility Checkers
• OCRing Content and Scanned Files
• Accessible Powerpoints

Learn how to create an accessible homepage, or use our in house template.

• Blog Post: What makes a good accessible home page?

Use headings in your content to help structure your content and allow people using screen readers to quickly browse by topic.

• Blog Post: Accessibility - Just do one thing! [1. Headings]

ALT text provides a text equivalent for images. The following resources may be useful when exploring ALT text for images, shapes, charts, SmartArt graphics, graphs or other objects.

• What is alternative text? How do I write it for images, charts, and graphs? (Youtube Video)
• Complex images - making sense for accessibility
• Diagram Center: How to describe complex images. (Youtube Video)
• POET Training Tool
• Making Course Images Accessible
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Good teaching practices are often well aligned with inclusive practice, and teachers are often intuitively inclusive, however, sometimes accidental barriers are incorporated through the adoption of new tools or practices. Good course design allows learners to see the big picture, the small picture and allows them to navigate seamlessly between different resources. Learning design models, inclusion and accessibility are intrinsically linked. Many learning design models, such as John Keller’s ARCS (Attention, Relevance, Confidence, Satisfaction) model, Laurillard’s conversational framework or Salmon’s 5 stage model have accessibility elements within them or have implications for technical accessibility. Adopting these models can help us but accessibility requires an organisational and individual response, which you can make by talking to your students, making small changes (see top tips) and using this new auditing tool. Ensure that:

• you are consistent in everything you do, whether it be course structure, or using terminology
• your course structure is easy to navigate
• you make content available in advance
• you use the Accessibility Checker in your word documents
• you don’t use PDF’s
• you use closed captions on video
• you talk to your students about digital accessibility

Learn how to create an accessible Powerpoint.

• Blog Post: Creating Accessible Powerpoints (Staff)

• Blog Post: Accessibility - Just do one thing [4. Using Audio and Video]
• Top ten tips for producing accessible, engaging video microlectures: Ellie Davidson

Learn how to create an accessible Powerpoint.

• Ally
• Accessibility Checkers